The Great Pacific Trash Vortex : The World's Fair

- David Ng is Director of the AMBL at the University of British Columbia - fancy speak for a science teacher.

- Benjamin Cohen teaches at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil and Society in the American Countryside (Yale, 2009). His interest is in those places where science, art, and environmental studies come together.

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"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt

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The Great Pacific Trash Vortex

Category: Podcastia
Posted on: July 15, 2008 9:00 AM, by Benjamin Cohen

Not just floating around the northern Pacific Ocean, it's now on podcast too.

image from Greenpeace via Treehugger

To the likes of the New York Times Magazine "Sea of trash" and Harper's "Moby Duck", please welcome Jody Roberts' voice to the bibliography of garbage swirling around the sea. It's all here in this Distillation's podcast, "Cleaning Up", from the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

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